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“Caesarion” as Palimpsest
“Caesarion” (1918) has long been hailed as “virtually a key to our whole understanding of Cavafy’s work” (Robinson, 1988, p. 86). The poem’s title...
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“The Unclosed Coffin”: The Neo-Victorian Afterlives of Elizabeth Siddal
In the prologue to Episode 1 of the BBC’s neo-Victorian drama, Desperate Romantics (2009), a comedy charting the lives and loves of the...
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“This Much I Know”: The Ghosting of the Past in Crimson Peak
Crimson Peak (2015) opens with the ending and then goes full circle: Edith Cushing says in the beginning of the film what she will say at the end of...
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Orophernes. Lessons from a Golden Coin
C. P. Cavafy’s “Orophernes” (1904, 1916, 1923) is a complex and elusive poem in which impressions formed by the viewing of a rare Hellenistic coin...
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Fred Saberhagen’s Dracula: The Vampire as Neo-Victorian Hero
Bram Stoker’s 1897 Dracula has been adapted numerous times, often in forms that would be defined as Neo-Victorian, including a series of nine novels...
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The Hauntology/Narratology of the Neo-Victorian Ghost Story
Referring to Derrida’s term, “hauntology,” which is a portmanteau of haunting and ontology, and applying his theory, Ayres investigates the iconic...
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Gaslight: The Play, the Film, the Noun, the Verb
Patrick Hamilton’s 1938 play Gas Light, filmed as Gaslight in 1940 and 1944, has rarely been considered a work of neo-Victorianism, but the films...
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Neo-Victorian Graphic Novels: Learning to Unmaster the Archive
Recent calls for “undisciplining” Victorian studies have urged scholars to reflect on how our own intellectual endeavours remain entangled with the...
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Neo-Victorian Poetry
A. S. Byatt’s 1991 novel, Possession, positions “Victorian” poetry at the centre of text and often drives plot in neo-Victorian literature. However,...
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Fits Like a Glove: Neo-Victorian Metonyms of Fingers, Hands, and Gloves
Throughout Victorian and even more so in neo-Victorian fiction, fingers, hands, and gloves are significant metonyms. For the Victorians,...
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The d’Urberville Family Portraits: Faciality and Identity
Hardy’s interest in his family tree developed to an almost obsessive degree in later life.
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‘The Face at the Casement’: Window Patterns in Hardy’s Poetry
In a number of characteristic poems Hardy deploys the image of the window in a mode which serves to explore the notion of the threshold and ways in...
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The Nameless Scourge: Tuberculosis in Ireland, 1800–the Present
The scourge of tuberculosis has long loomed large in world history, and perhaps our ongoing grappling with COVID-19 turns our thoughts to the...
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Dracula, Ireland’s Vampiric Vector
Readers tend to interpret Dracula as an avatar of whatever most reflects their own anxiety, superimposing upon Stoker’s monster their various human...
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Naming the Scourge and the “Sanatorium of the Imagination”
After tuberculosis became curable rather than a death sentence, it did not take long for this previously unimaginable reversal to appear in fiction....
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Transnational Flows: Women Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century
The role of women intellectuals across and beyond national borders expanded rapidly at the dawn of the nineteenth century, thus allowing for a...
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Romantic Cartographies: La Condesa de Merlin’s Colonial Havana and the View from the Harbor
When la Comtesse Merlin, née María de las Mercedes Santa Cruz y Montalvo, arrived in Havana in June 1840, the city that greeted her contrasted with...
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Gender Fluidity, the Crisis of Care, and Eco-criticism in George Sand’s François le champi
Aurore Dupin (1804–1886), more widely known under her pen name George Sand, remained engaged in social and political issues both on and off the...
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“Doña María Dolores López, Vecina of Tehuacán” or the Case of a Too-Soon Forgotten Nineteenth-Century Mexican Woman Writer
The essay examines the only extant work of the relatively unknown María Dolores López, an ode written for a poetry contest and compiled in Cantos de...